Edwin D. Ricketts

Edwin D. Ricketts

Edwin Darlington Ricketts (born August 3, 1867 in Maxville , Perry County , Ohio , †  July 3, 1937 in Logan , Ohio) was an American politician . Between 1915 and 1917 and again from 1919 to 1923 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edwin Ricketts attended the public schools in his home country and then worked for twelve years in the school service as a teacher and headmaster. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1899, he began practicing this profession in Logan. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In the 1914 congressional election he was elected to the Eleventh constituency of Ohio in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded the Democrat Horatio C. Claypool on March 4, 1915 , whom he had defeated in the election.

Since he lost to Claypool in 1916, he was initially only able to serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1917 . In the elections of 1918 he was re-elected to Congress in the eleventh district of his state, where he replaced Claypool on March 4, 1919. After being re-elected, he could remain there until March 3, 1923. The 18th and 19th amendments to the Constitution were ratified in 1919 and 1920 . It was about the ban on trade in alcoholic beverages and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage . In 1922, Edwin Ricketss was not re-elected.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, he worked as a lawyer again. In June 1928 he took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City , where Herbert Hoover was nominated as a presidential candidate. He died on July 3, 1937 in Logan, where he was also buried.

Web links

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• Edwin D. Ricketts in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edwin D. Ricketts in the database of Find a Grave (English)